1. Community Memory & Digital Inclusion Projects
Ideas and service priorities

2. Inspired by IMLS Big Opportunities for Small Libraries grant category definitions:
Community Memory
Libraries and archives not only serve as stewards of our nation’s knowledge and collections, but also as trusted spaces for community engagement and dialogue.
This project category centers on engaging local communities in the collection, documentation, and preservation of their local histories, experiences, and identities.
Digital Inclusion
Libraries have an important role in promoting digital inclusion and increasing access to information, ideas, and networks.
This category focuses on projects that support the role libraries play in promoting digital literacy, providing internet access, and enabling community engagement through civic data and civic technology.

3. Topic 1: Local history items - in library’s collection
Local History: Items in library’s collection: digitize materials that are held by the library.
Directories and property information
Reedsburg - property survey
Stoughton - phone directories
Scrapbooks
Richland Co. Digital History Room- personal scrapbook
Community interest collections
Stoughton - buttons and coins /Syttende Mai festival
Jane Morgan, Cambria - postcards
*Note: library newspaper collections are not being digitized at this time*

4. Topic 2: Local history items - in community’s collection
Local History: In the community: digitize items that are held by community members.
Invite community members to digitize their materials at the library.
Use library’s own equipment - Madison
Borrow SCLS digitization equipment - Columbus
Community members encouraged to add digital copy to the library’s holdings.
Could be developed into a library program.

5. Topic 3: Library history
Library History: capture your library’s history.
Scrapbooks
Albertson Memorial Library, new building
Annual reports
Kilbourn Statistical Report
Conference materials
Kilbourn District Library Conference notes
Really cool notes - especially see the update from Elroy
Library programs
Kilbourn - SLP, 1988
Bookmobile services
Dane County Library Service, photo

6. Topic 4: Oral history
Oral History: capture your community’s oral history or digitize recordings in your library’s collection.
Ruth Culver Community Library
Digitized community interviews - telephone operators
Kilbourn
Digitized community interviews - tourism history (Wisco Sassy!)
Recordings from the WI Dells Minirama, 1960
Rosemary Garfoot
Community member interviews - in progress.

7. Topic 5: Community Engagement and Programs
Community engagement and programs: opportunities for community members to engage with one another, the library, and the library’s digital collections.
Scanning programs
Columbus
Madison
Oral history interviews
Storycorp example
Public programs
Public presentations centered on unique materials, i.e., a program about historic businesses, industries, community events
Displays

8. Topic 6: Other
Other?
Anything else?
What’s on your wishlist?

9. Help us determine service priorities:
Over lunch, please:
Review the 6 topics.
Identify your top 2 topics of interest with yellow dots.
Yes! You can use both dots on one topic.
Feel free to add comments, additional ideas, or specific program examples.